Published in Cancer Weekly, December 7th, 2004
According to recent research from the Czech Republic, "Dendritic cell (DC)-based vaccines are being intensively investigated for the treatment of a variety of human neoplasms. However, little attention has until now been paid to the use of DC-based vaccines for immunotherapy of tumor residua after surgery. In this communication, an animal model mimicking human HPV16-associated neoplasms was employed to examine the effect of DC-based vaccines for the treatment of surgical minimal residual tumor disease. Mice were subcutaneously inoculated with syngeneic TC-1 tumor cells...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-12-07)
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